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X-Ray Laser Turns Up the Heat to 3.6 Million Degrees
- vannevar 15y agoThe press release that the article summarizes can be found at https://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/world’s-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-creates-2-million-degree-matter https://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/world’s-most-po... . It goes into a little more detail, including some brief comments on the implications for fusion research. Fusion in my view is one of the two technologies that will have the greatest impact on human progress in the 21st century. The other is evolutionary computation (solving problems via genetic algorithms rather than conventional analysis).